John Bates

John Bates was the founder of Apama (UK) Ltd., founded in 1999, where the title held was President & Chief Technology Officer from 1999 to 2009.
Dr. Bates is also the founder of Active Media Corp...
Dr. Bates is currently Chief Executive Officer at Ser; Chief Executive Officer & Director at Eggplant Live Ltd.; Chief Executive Officer at SERgroup Holding International GmbH since 2022; Chief Executive Officer at SER Group Holding GmbH; Independent Non-Executive Director at The Sage Group plc since 2019; Independent Non-Executive Director at Sage South Africa (Pty) Ltd. since 2019; Director at Eggplant Topco Ltd. since 2017; Director at Eggplant Bidco Ltd. since 2017; Director at Eggplant Ltd. since 2017; Director at Eggplant Midco Ltd. since 2017; Co-Managing Director at SER Solutions Deutschland GmbH; Co-Managing Director at Varinem German MidCo GmbH; Advisor at SenaHill Investment Group LLC.
Former positions include Chief Executive Officer & Director at Eggplant Group Ltd.; Chief Executive Officer at Plat.
One, Inc.; Chief Executive Officer at Keysight Technologies, Inc.; Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President at Progress Software Corp.
from 2011 to 2013; Member at Software GmbH from 2013 to 2014; Chief Technology Officer at Terracotta, Inc. from 2013 to 2014; Executive Vice President-Corporate Strategy at Progress Software SAS; Advisory Council Member at C5 Capital (United States) from 2015 to 2016.
Education includes a doctorate from the University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree from the University of Lancaster.